ATD announces nominees for 2015 Commercial Truck of the Year

The American Truck Dealers (ATD) announced today three nominees for the 2015 ATD Commercial Truck of the Year.

This year, the award will recognize the top truck entered in the vocational and heavy haul/severe duty category.

The nominees are International WorkStar 7600, Kenworth T880 Vocational Truck with PACCAR MX-13 Engine and Peterbilt Model 567. For truck photos and descriptions, click here.

The winner will be announced on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the 2015 ATD Convention & Expo in San Francisco which runs Jan. 22-25.

The winner will be determined by a panel of judges, who will test drive and evaluate the trucks at Manheim San Francisco Bay on Jan. 19. The judging categories include innovation, design, safety, driver ergonomics and comfort. 

David A. Kolman, editor of Fleet Maintenance Magazine, is once again one of the judges. 

Other events at the ATD convention include keynote remarks from ATD Chairman Eric Jorgensen, president and CEO of JX Enterprises Inc., and Thomas Frey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute. New for 2015 is a networking general session. Truck dealers will also meet with their manufacturer executives at 11 make meetings and with exhibitors in the ATD Expo Zone.